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Thanks to Stacey Wright, who captured these images at last weekend's Miami Valley Brewfest in Miamisburg, OH. This was their second year for the festival, organized by Max Nunery with The Repeating Arms. Stacey says it has rained both years at the Brewfest, but that enthusiastic crowds have attended despite the poor weather.
Here are the remainder of Frank Baker's photos from the 2016 Bluegrass On The Grass festival held on the campus of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania each year. This batch captures images of The Dismembered Tennesseans and Big Country Bluegrass along with shots from the grounds of the event. Dismembered Tennesseans have been performing together since 1945!
John Treadway of Taylorsville, NC has been announced as the newest member of Big Country Bluegrass. He will be playing banjo and singing harmony with the southwest Virginia band, filling the spot vacated recently when Lynwood Lunsford left after nine years to start his own group. John had previously served as banjo player with Wes [...]
If you ever want to fire up a room full of bluegrass fans, just ask them to define traditional bluegrass. Some will define it as the original 1945-46 Blue Grass Boys. Some will expand it to include a few second generation acts, while others will broaden the spectrum to today's popular "modern traditional" bands. Amongst [...]
Here's another gallery of Frank Baker's images from the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival earlier this month.
Rebel Records has released a single, Bluefield West Virginia Blues, from their upcoming album by Big Country Bluegrass. It's a new song from Tom T. & Dixie Hall and Troy Engle, telling of a time when Tom T. encountered an exceptional banjo player who he didn't have a chance to meet. It's one of two songs by [...]
Frank Baker has shared this gallery of photos he took at Bluegrass on the Grass, held on the campus of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania this past weekend.
From the comments we get, it's clear that many of our readers are fans of country music as well as bluegrass. So for those of you who follow the Nashville scene, here's a fun story. On superstar Mirada Lambert's new album, Platinum, there's a jumping track recorded with Nashville swing specialists, The Time Jumpers, called All [...]
Grady Andrew Bullins died Monday (3/17/14) in Stokes, NC at 82 years of age. He had performed with Charlie Monroe many years ago, and later with Roy McMillian and High Country, Cecil Hall and the Dominion Bluegrass Boys, and Southern Partners. More recently, his song High Alleghenies was nominated for a 2010 SPBGMA Song of the [...]
On This Day ……….. On January 7, 1987, Big Country Bluegrass, based in Troutdale, Virginia, was formed. The ultra-traditional band was named after the Jimmy Martin instrumental Big Country, a tune that he recorded with J. D. Crowe on November 22, 1966. The tune was the first recorded by Big Country Bluegrass in 1989. Leader [...]
